World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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Neil McKinnon
Forename(s):
Neil
Surname:
McKinnon
Initial(s):
N
Service Number:
Mercantile Marine
Rank:
Able Seaman
Regiment:
SS Northumbria
Died:
09/01/1919
Aged:
30
Buried:
Embleton (Spitalford) Cemetery, Northumberland
Service History:
SS Northumbria was a ship of 4,215 grt built in 1906 & owned by Westminster Steamship Co. Ltd. of London.
While on a voyage from Baltimore to Sunderland with a cargo of wheat she struck 2 mines in the North Sea one mile off Redcar at 03:00 on 9 January 1919.
The ship's lifeboats had not been fitted with rowlocks. Most were swamped but one managed to get away. After drifting for a week in stormy weather the sole surviving lifeboat washed up at Newton-by-the-Sea, Northumberland. All but two of the 10 men who managed to get into the lifeboat were dead. In all, 36 men lost their lives.
Background:
Son of the late Mr & Mrs John McKinnon, of 'Tangasdale', Barra, Invernesshire.
Local Memorial:
Embleton (Spitalford) Cemetery